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A Trip to Music in Films (4/4)
19. https://brilliantio.com/2000s-music/
20. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000, Tan Dun, https://youtu.be/vD7mt8F4Yiw?si=_2kMFbt1ZXTyk3kR | No Man´s Land 2001, Danis Tanović, https://youtu.be/garLWjfqsGw?si=y3ClH_ncbGCIZ4yW | The Devils Backbone 2001, Javier Navarrete, https://youtu.be/DdxGoizQmC4?si=nPUgUsdJ2xBnRq5u | Gladiator 2001, Hans Zimmer, https://youtu.be/-yOZEiHLuVU?si=vZVx9MT5Nz4EiVmi | City of God 2002, Antônio Pinto, Ed Cortês, https://youtu.be/ADMRpwfPHww?si=28je4AFspeLOSIg2 | Goodbye Lennin 2003, Yann Tiersen, Claire Pichet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCraQMOTrA8&list=PLU4x-BD4c5gF0S1MCcRVOmhQtCn0zbIBO | Lord of the Rings 2001-2003, Howard Shore, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JLNn5-zXMg | Shaun of the dead 2004, Pete Woodhead, Daniel Mudford, https://youtu.be/5aG2xxsauX8?si=HgFDduc_NY9mj6KT | The Sea Inside 2004, Alejandro Amenábar, https://youtu.be/5aG2xxsauX8?si=HgFDduc_NY9mj6KT | The Pianist 2002, Wojciech Kilar, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQ0QnbpTi4&list=PLRW80bBvVD3VRrI-ZxdAIO2055pvFWZWA | Wolf Creek 2005, Frank Tétaz, https://youtu.be/MIy20xFdfFY?si=ga_hijEyyQWHyTh4 | Tsotsi 2005, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5TsfUagyU&list=PL2268F918A755E5FD&index=1 | Letters from Iwo Jima 2006, Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens, https://youtu.be/wSGva04yOic?si=nmZrrkBP1FZS_nFm | Persepolis 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKmYEjgmmng&list=PL023BCE97C2875172 | The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas 2008, James Horner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nAtOn2XrMU | Slumdog millionaire 2008, A. R. Rahman, https://youtu.be/xwwAVRyNmgQ?si=Wj9nj0b72h4l2Zcw | Departures 2008, Joe Hisaishi, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiyFeT0Tpkk | Red Cliff 2008, Tarō Iwashiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvGnZye9Fvs&list=PLC73C36A0BF31C17E | The Secret in Their Eyes 2009, Federico Jusid, https://youtu.be/g9EEeqRTDtI?si=EIZKZzSovpUk0mZ0 | Coraline 2009, Bruno Coulais, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8ry1f_3Lsk&list=PLDCD67CE98D531DCE | Inglorious Bastards 2009, Various Artists, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNmkE5Vig-I&list=PLe5TmI8uWOSYVEUVmz-H2a2CErmpRQnC0
21. Inception 2010, Hans Zimmer, https://youtu.be/tSl0KjR5V9Q?si=E8-L4_6cNpx6oIDD(20) | Robin Hood 2010, Marc Streitenfeld, https://youtu.be/KEr__dT19II?si=zuGnOGU505yb-KQb (21) | Automata 2014, Zacarías M. de la Riva, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhh2fYK9hjw | Train to Busan 2016 , Jang Young-gyu, https://youtu.be/JoCj3ttEnHk?si=awrxHb0uw_ab0jRs | The Duel 2016, Craig Eastman, https://youtu.be/h_gXfLMBiOA | Dunkirk 2017, Hans Zimmer, https://youtu.be/wlXjP59jZCM?si=NMi9SSR7j77IQ6sb | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2011, Alexandre Desplat, https://youtu.be/rtMcO38RjSY?si=ChERT34Ec9pYuJlR, https://youtu.be/f5RaF6Oqs1I?si=ynMJMqk8QoLoV6XX | The Dark Knight Rises 2012, Hans Zimmer, https://youtu.be/CpAkBWG8eu8 | A separation 2011, Sattar Oraki, https://youtu.be/jcTqdNN5LuE?si=aZyOA2KjIrHVk3r5 | Ernest & Celestine 2012, Vincent Courtois, https://youtu.be/7qDRzK29Ye8?si=weH-6SRBTf80g7Cg | Parasite 2019, Jung Jae-il, https://youtu.be/OoPRfITCS2M?si=FhC7iNSwY8Ppqnfd | Song of the Sea 2014, Bruno Coulais, Kíla, https://youtu.be/IFlioLWmE7k?si=LRtz_iyQZW8_VMgY | The Handmaiden 2016, Jo Yeong-wook, https://youtu.be/RJ_Ck_a7RdY?si=K6Gpa5tXfACwFkck | Roma 2018, Various Artists, https://youtu.be/2h4P2Q-Ta0g?si=sQM5M4tQoS5tN_f4 |White Snake: The Origin 2019, Guo Haowei, https://youtu.be/rQFRDDezpEw?si=SQh6rPzWt1ceQPRv | Pain and Glory 2019, Alberto Iglesias, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97dPmYd-BWM
22. The Portable Door2023, Benjamin Speed, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaru5OKnj9c | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 2022, James Newton Howard, https://youtu.be/bII5gQBcktA?si=4g1ByqZ9Dg_dKayM | There is something in the Barn 2023, Lasse Enersen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRG-eeIu_04 |All quiet on the western front 2022, Volker Bertelmann, https://youtu.be/MLT384fjIg4 | Another Round 2020, Various Artists, https://www.what-song.com/Movies/Soundtrack/103487/Another-Round | Land of Bad 2024, Brandon Roberts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E78-cLLGmes | Reminiscence 2021, Ramin Djawadi, https://youtu.be/oYIZhwX6TEE?si=onUi2Ub_6Q0dpUOG | The Mitchels vs. The Machines 2021, Mark Mothersbaugh, https://youtu.be/KOCrv-2l1lg?si=7XTvRBA5I28DH4j3) | Guns Akimbo 2020, Enis Rotthoff , https://www.what-song.com/Movies/Soundtrack/103320/Guns-Akimbo | Mutant Ghost War Girl, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20hGNnLMSYw | Napoleon 2023, Martin Phipps, https://youtu.be/iYTgkIrGrWs?si=sbwHhQASKPjIpTML | Journey to Bethlehem 2023, Adam Anders, Nikki Anders, Peer Åström, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWAIqUPYbV8 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2021, Various Artists, https://youtu.be/ChMugQC6uTs?si=3ifqJP4_LtqU7HQu |Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023, John Williams, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eazlcj0cOIY | Drive my Car 2021, Eiko Ishibashi,https://youtu.be/EWoRGRbbDEQ?si=3UGx7yti7pAdQroC | Guardians of the Galaxy 2023, John Murphy, https://youtu.be/JW3p7jU_r_Q | The Zone of interest, 2023, Mica Levi, https://youtu.be/e-FiwwrHZ68?si=to8WUcPsV0_r0T7O | Nomadland 2020, Ludovico Einaudi, https://youtu.be/W32VdXGUnUY | Poker Face 2022,Matteo Zingales, Antony Partos, https://youtu.be/hJul9DCxEQ8?si=CaRenUaplCLq_mG5
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A Trip to Music in Films (3/4)
13.James Bond theme 1962, Monty Norman & John Barry, https://youtu.be/Vr6yscEWPYw?si=AkBBuDhy7dOUxAPn |The Pink Panther 1963 Henri Mancini, https://youtu.be/ilull9eS3mQ?si=w5pC7J8sQ4UDJuXP | Onibaba 1964, Hikaru Hayashi, https://youtu.be/ajVoLJjc5o0?si=lWNmhktPjEohrJyW | The Jungle Book, George Bruns, https://youtu.be/p8xPOXLVko4?si=uo8xE9M560klOU2K | West Side Story 1961, Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim, https://youtu.be/Z7OHCrp13Ho?si=ZZwsgIFN4niYvaLI || Une femme es une femme 1961,Michel Legrand, https://youtu.be/T2o2tGWAKko |Yellow Submarine 1968, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, https://youtu.be/j_JaDDcyIIU?si=75q-5_UVktpiT06P| Alfie 1963¸ Sony Rollins, https://youtu.be/K843J1cp0-0 | Woman in the dunes (1964),Toru Takemitsu, https://youtu.be/w2rOFDmfpNg | The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Ennio Moriconne, https://youtu.be/vt34RyLUTFQ?si=HzGFsLEoOqdHOUl4 | Battle of Britain soundtrack 1969, Ron Goodwin & S.William Walton, https://youtu.be/-sjO1JYZfUw | War and Peace 1967, Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n3TpAbBci6_AwDLk-Sn4OGdSuQw1vp59Q&si=zsb-elGwIG44V8oK | The Shop on Main Street 1965, Zdeněk Liška, https://youtu.be/IcCILptzD2U?si=-JvigUR0NuDm6W-z, https://youtu.be/-wlb6jAdVoQ?si=u0ObwykwWL-DL1VJ | The Ipcress file 1965, John Barry, https://youtu.be/yFWMFvBTZ4M?si=XVoTgVXmv0h6OsHN
14.The Godfather Trilogy 1972, Nino Rota, https://youtu.be/AlJJJwl7Ess | SHAFT 1971, Isaac Hayes, https://youtu.be/uNJKmf6KTcU?si=myjjEvyBKkhfGvhl | Star Wars Original Opening 1977, John Williams, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MoaiSyUio | Heavy Traffic 1973, Ed Bogas, Ray Shanklin,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8qkkUcovdg&list=PLA72E0DDD1CE99F55 | Life of Brian 1979, Geoffrey Burgon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQcoMtSfx4&list=PLKjjIa7cwTkIJgShyLCSJcfkbnnlwUGYs | Chariots of Fire 1981, Vangelis, https://youtu.be/v1IrXczQOF8 | Halloween 1978, John Carpenter, https://youtu.be/pT4FY3NrhGg |Dersu Uzala 1975, Isaak Shvarts, https://youtu.be/DijUvDi87Fc?si=N3eUSBlqT2-episb| Saturday Night Live 1977, https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLncSr7CeehKnoYQ0p94v5_dgH8EQC9oB3&si=iVgtS9GqCOgWd-PH | The Harder They Come 1972, Jimmy Cliff, https://youtu.be/BpQrLUopf-k | Die Blechtrommel 1979, Maurice Jarre, https://youtu.be/27gfoTm6ufg?si=QqIjQWQMjH1o7oG8 | Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970, Jerry Goldsmith, https://youtu.be/RwKcZuuE9GM?si=fs2jliynr2jqVOjm
15.Blue Velvet 1986, Angelo Badalamenti, https://youtu.be/dFOX5Uza17c | The Secret of Nimh 1982, Jerry Goldsmith, https://youtu.be/H_I3SaTpdqM?si=Plc-HANsjf930EeS | “Tootsie” 1982, Dave Grusin, https://youtu.be/3qqZefHhWf0?si=PFVxFwylZkx4enYu |Der Himmer über Berlin - Wings of Desire 1987, Jürgen Knieper & Laurent Petitgand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCtCclkUhxA | Akira 1988, Shōji Yamashiro, https://youtu.be/ngTf7ccaBRo?si=zNJzzQ9y73xxAotf | The Snowman 1982, Howard Blake https://youtu.be/5A3THighARU?si=ww8ZClVa_TIDveBm | Transformers 1986, Vince DiCola, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC82cseoTs | Flashdance 1983, Giorgio Moroder, Cara and Keith Forsey, https://youtu.be/tKcjZSh5xs0 | Foot Loose 1984 Tom Snow, Jim Steinman, Kenny Loggins, Dean Pitchford, Miles Goodman, https://youtu.be/NqGslEZ5I6c?si=3HahWX0e3FELWzF6 | The Breakfast Club 1985, Keith Forsey, https://youtu.be/VG78fq6KAPA?si=smXKh7_UomvJrBr4 | Breakin’ 1984, Michael Boyd, Gary Remal, https://youtu.be/cqiQmO5frrE?si=7dAwvDYmZ353Wc28 | The Blues Brothers 1980, https://youtu.be/EHV0zs0kVGg?si=GKGpktZ8MAl6KREF |
16.Cinema Paradiso 1988,Ennio Moricone, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlQh4PeB8PE | Scarface 1983,Giorgio Moroder, https://youtu.be/aKv1_GfxFZY?si=W-xF9FPhM0XolbeJ | Come and See 1985, Oleg Yanchenko, https://youtu.be/w1a3iZBXguo | Fanny and Alexander 1982, Daniel Bell, https://youtu.be/OAabnhwhZcE | | The Neverending Story, Klaus Doldinger
Giorgio Moroder, https://youtu.be/heHdOTt_iGc?si=j5yN2gl6348vJ4xW |Crocodile Dundee 1986, Peter Best, https://youtu.be/p6vrdrTEFeo | Back to the Future 1985, Alan Silvestri, https://youtu.be/eHGGgQ0F9IM
17.https://artsandculture.google.com/story/from-the-golden-era-to-gigabytes-the-movie-music-story/hwKyOpqNyMwhLA | https://filmustage.com/blog/music-scoring-in-film-production/ | https://www.ranker.com/list/best-oscar-winning-foreign-films/ranker-film?ref=listed_on&pos=4 | https://www.ranker.com/list/best-world-cinema-movies-list/ranker-film?ref=listed_on&pos=3
18.Unchained Melody, Ghost 1990, Maurice Jarre, https://youtu.be/c2ZWLK2R4x4 | Pulp Fiction 1994, Dick Dale’s an others, https://youtu.be/jDheFajWYUM | Trainspotting 1996, Damon Albam, https://youtu.be/zXM9a2kE7RM | Indochine 1992, Patrick Doyle, https://youtu.be/Gkju1Ni2PnA?si=Bs-H3AGQvydtSN9g | Forrest Gump 1992, Alan Silvestri, https://youtu.be/VWoUcB7y4hw?si=UhVRsqRoKfgQb60I | Life is beautiful 1997, Nicola Piovani https://youtu.be/KB99gDvxyFo?si=oREhBs7NAeXWgk5R |All about my mother, 1999, Alberto Iglesias,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAhmvR_Curo&list=PLq38bv0D4pNFTbiDpD2Zd32OLwAJFF824&index=1 | Muriel´s Wedding, 1994, Peter Best, https://youtu.be/BUDz7m0BXjk?si=zRU62MSrCI9Q4iwl | The adventures of Priscilla. Queen of the Desert 1994, Guy Gross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf4m0qBherg&list=PLWsjhkXz0QVxhkjhUSG_Mv2veFVOQrC3_ | Wild Wild West 1999, Elmer Bernstein, https://youtu.be/SBrV_AG7TWs?si=mp461tV6x9idzyrk | Men in Black 1997, Dani Elfman, https://youtu.be/jyb33RgAxis?si=7mSBAINrvFOxjE4E | The Cider House Rules 1999, Rachel Portman, John Lenehan, David Snell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zTbB0L3dqM | I have nothing – The bodyguard 1994, Whitney Houston, Alan Silvestri, Allan Dennis Rich, https://youtu.be/19LPgLKrgLE?si=a7SiE-3PcttOF5M8 | Not Gon`cry´s - Waiting to Exhale 1995, Babyface, https://youtu.be/6r9NTrWEW5Y?si=yzQJW9u0Q3Rqa7Nf| How to Survive in South Central - Boyz n the Hood 1991, Stanley Clarke, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CX4x9KP0g&list=RDh5CX4x9KP0g&start_radio=1 | Only Yesterday 1991, Katz Hoshi,https://youtu.be/vzXm3DVQ78o | The Lion King 1994, Hans Zimmer, Tim Rice, Joseph Williams, Elton John,https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxiswidpS0UGnZTVQ-eiqlavfNawJRp0B&si=2CrqGZHqpzCxDRpX | The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993, Dani Elfman, https://youtu.be/tc5EM3G2p9M?si=MXA1FVikVdLedS-5 | Kolya, 1996 Ondřej Soukup, https://youtu.be/HoedMkFqL2g?si=f7uT9C0Gy9nA3Fim | Fantastic Four 1994, John Ottman,https://youtu.be/77kOZg31cjM?si=8BGDoeHV8e_35kDB | https://whatnerd.com/marvel-cinematic-universe-history-success/
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A Trip to Music in Films (1/4)
We watch films because we need to dream, learn and share with the others. And we like to do it in a dark room, full of strange people, looking at a bright big screen and at a volume you cannot even hear your own thoughts, but never mind, we like to share emotions with the screen and the rest of these unknown humans seated in that movie theatre room while watching a film of our choice luckily. This type of environment creates a singular atmosphere of intimacy between the spectator and the story is being showed that causes a real connection, that is probably why we don´t mind to share that moment with people we don´t really know. Cinema enlarges life and it represents it to us in an audio visual production narrative format. But what lay behind this media product causes a catharsis between the spectator and the story, has to do with the ritual of tragedy, comedy or satyr classic Greek theatre brought us (1), (2) several centuries ago. Theatre was born over 2.500 years ago as a form of entertainment for society in the classical Athens in the 5th century BC (3).
As spectators, there is an emphatic resonance with what we see and listen to in films, becoming a part of that reality for a while; movies allow us to feel intense emotions without having to endure the events ourselves. We can also be any character we want without making more effort than getting ourselves to the theatre, sit and watch. Films help us learn about us, our environment, our history or the way others solve their issues in life. Films help us to encourage as spectators, to recognise ourselves in characters so that we can perform change. We will always resemble with one of the characters, because that is why we are choosing to watch that movie and not any another. They can drive social changes, giving visibility to what or whoever needs it, just like music does (4).
Now think about silent films (5). The first silent films started to see the light slightly before 1878, made by nouvelle filmmakers, photographers, researchers and writers like Georges Mèlies, the Lumiere Brothers (7), Edward James Muggeridge (6), Lewis Carroll or Charles Chaplin (9) among others, leaving us many jewels in the shape of films. The first featured length film (original 70’ running time) that had a story was “The Story of the Kelly Gang”, on 1906 by Charles Tait(8).
At the very first of film making, beginning of the 20th Century, films were often accompanied by a live music orchestra, bright piano or a quartet that enhanced scenes using music to convey a better understanding of the plot, the exposition and resolution of the film, as the film was going by. Technical development and honing on kinetoscope, phonograph and chronograph resulted on the Phono-Cinématographe (Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre System (5)) and it made possible to incorporate sound on films. Sound was included in films after 1926 with the production of films like “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” 1920 (10), “Nosferatu” 1922 (10), “Battleship Potemkim 1925 (10), “The Adventures of Prince Achmed”, 1926 (10), “Metropolis”1927 (10),“Don Juan, 1926 or “The Jazz Singer” in 1927 (10). This technical event resulted in new skilled positions in the filming industry for producers, directors, actors, music composers, musicians and technicians. The development of computing sciences and computer components throughout the 20th century and early 21st century, made possible the digital era in which we are, leading the electronic age of music and turning it into the digital film music, letting us enjoy films today with high digital effects and high quality sound we never could have dreamed of a century ago (11).
In the 1930s filmmakers started to figure out music as an emotional component and started to use music to support the film´s plot and character actions. Music became almost essential to set the mood, genre and to enhance characters in the film´s story. The first score composed for a film was “Birth of a Nation” (12) and it was created with classical works rather than diegetic sound like in “The Jazz Singer” or “Casablanca” (12). The first original soundtrack composed for a film was Max Steiner´s King Kong in 1933 (12).
In late 1930s and the decade of 1940s, filmmakers discovered the power of jazz in their films. Jazz (white jazz) became indispensable when it came to depict moments of fun and celebration in films. Over time, a more purist form of jazz (black jazz) with trumpets and saxophones was incorporated into films. Orchestras kept performing film scores on almost every film music genre as in “Fantasia” 1940 (12), “The Third Man” 1949 (12) or in “Duel in the Sun” 1949 (12) scores.
Symphonic scoring made a huge comeback in the 1950s thanks to Spaghetti Westerns (“Winchester ’73” 1950 (12), “The Searchers” 1956 (12), “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” 1957 (12), “3:10 to Yuma” 1957 (12), “River of no Return” 1954 (12)) where twangy guitars, spanish trumpets were performed to accompany horse chases and gun battles. Orchestras also performed in many other film genres by that time (“A Streetcar Named Desire´s” 1951 (12), “La Strada” 1954 (12), “The King and I” in 1956 (12), “The Bridge on the River Kwai” 1957 (12)).
The 60s was the decade of unsettling music. Sci-fi and suspense films emerged strongly. Unusual sounds arouse to create different atmospheres in films (“James Bond Dr. No” 1962 (13), the “Pink Panther” 1963 (13), “Onibaba” 1964 (13), “The Jungle Book” 1967 (13) or ”Z” 1968). Musicals came back shyly in this decade (“West Side Story” 1961 (13), “Une femme est une femme” in 1961 (13)). Another flavour of animated musical film was left in “Yellow Submarine” 1968 (13). “The Graduate”1963, “Alfie”1963 (13) and many other films made within the 60s incorporated pop music of that time in their soundtracks also known as needle drops. In this decade avant-garde music could be heard in films such as “Woman in the Dunes” (13). Spaghetti Western film compositions continued throughout the decade of the 60s (“The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” 1966 (13)). Military march maintained its legacy in late 1960s as we can listen to in “Battle of Britain’s” Goodwin and Walton´s score (13), “War and Peace”1967 score (13), “The Shop on Main Street” 1965 (13) or “The Ipcress File” 1965 (13).
Experimentalism kept growing in the 70s though classical scoring giving characters and their relationships more emotional complexity in epic crime scores like “The Godfather” 1972 (14) or in crime action thrillers like “SHAFT” (14). In the late 70’s Orchestra Composition was recovered for “Star Wars”1977 (14), “Allegro Non Troppo” 1976, “Heavy Traffic” 1973(14), “Life of Brian” 1979 (14) . Synthetisers and computer generated music took the lead in the late 1970s and early 1980’s on the majority of film scores leaving us soundtracks like “Chariots of Fire” 1981 (14) or “Halloween” 1978 (14) or “Dersu Uzala” 1975 (14). The decade of the 1970s was defined by more complex orchestra and jazz compositions, disco film music (“Saturday Night Fever”1977 (14)) and reggae film music (“The Harder They Come” 1972 (14)) as an evolution of 40 years of rock, folk-rock, jazz, quartets and orchestra’s compositions in films. These changes in film music transmitted to fantastic and war films (“Die Blechtrommel” (The Thin Drum) 1979 (14), “Tora! Tora! Tora! ”1970 (14), “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” 1972). Musicals felt out of favour in this decade.
In the the 1980s computer generated music experimented (17) a huge expansion, software libraries of sound appeared thanks to the creation of MIDI protocol. Classic music, vintage and modern pop (synth-pop) songs took the handover on many film soundtracks during this decade, like in “Blue Velvet” (15) or “The Secret of Nimh”1982 (15) or “Tootsie” 1982 (15). Disco evolved into modern dance music, hip hop consolidated and rock evolved into other flavours like glam rock. Historic moments got depicted in films like “Mephisto”1981, “Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire)” 1987 (15), “Babette’s Feast” 1987 or “Pelle the Conequeror”1987. Animated film music let us foresee the changes of this decade in films like “Akira” 1988 (15), “The Snowman” 1982 (15) or “Transformers” 1986 (15). Dancing movies arouse strongly on the 80s like “Flashdance”, 1983 (15), “Foot Loose” 1984 (15), “The Breakfast Club” 1985 (15), “Breakin’” 1984 (15) or “The Blues Brothers”1980 (15).
More reflections of the contemporary and social moments that went through in this decade can be heard in “Cinema Paradiso” 1988 (16), Scarface” 1983 (16) or “Come and see” 1985 (16). Classical Baroque music can be found on “Fanny and Alexander´s”1982 soundtrack (16). Hybrid music orchestra, computer made music (sampling scores), avant-garde music and modern pop in their soundtracks is what can be noticed in almost every genre in the 80s film music, since this decade was the one in which major technological and experimental innovation and improved digital recording decade (“The Neverending Story” 1984 (16), “My neighbour Totoro” 1988). The decade of the 1980s has revealed as the beginning of several film music series that lead to a rise of the soundtrack albums. These productions have lasted to the 2010s and 2020s in some cases (“Crocodile Dundee” 1986 (16), “Back to the Future” 1985 (16), “Aliens” 1986, “The Terminator” 1984, “Top Gun”, 1986, “Indiana Jones” 1981, “Die Hard” 1988, “Ghostbusters” 1984).
In the 1990s many technical advances boosted an improve on devices and software storage, data compression and many other technological features that made recording, sampling and music libraries better in music software. This advances also created new positions within the film music industry such electronic musicians and producers. Electronic music started to take off in this decade and film music introduced those in many score themes and soundtracks. But in the early 90s a taste for the old style sound, big band and disco genres with an anachronistic use of those songs arouse on film scores also “Ghost” Unchained Melody 1990 (18), “Pulp Fiction” 1994 (18), “Trainspotting” 1996 (18), “Belle Époque” 1992, “Indochine” 1992 (18), “Forrest Gump” 1994 (18), “Life is Beautiful” 1997 (18), “All About My Mother” 1999(18), “Muriel´s Wedding” 1994 (18), “The adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Dessert” 1994 (18), “Wild Wild West” 1999 (18), “Men in Black” 1997 (18) or “The Cider House Rules” 1999 (18). Pop rock culture was brought to the screen as well through titles like “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” 1991. R&B and Soul music took a more relevant place in films like “The bodyguard” 1992 (18) or “Not Gon’ cry” 1997 “Waiting to Exhale”1995 (18) just like hip-hop style lived a big raise in film music in this decade as in “How to Survive in South Central” in “Boyz n the Hood”1991 (18) or “Fight the Power” anthem in “Do the Right Thing” 1989. More classical and ad hoc compositions with sparks and flashes of epic, magic and scary effects can be found on films like “Only Yesterday” 1991 (18), “The Lion King” 1994 (18), “The Nightmare before Christmas” 1993 (18), “Kolya” 1996 (18) or “Karacter” 1997. The Marvel Phenomenon started with comic series back in 1972, and suffered many changes until this “comic-styled” films turned reality in 1994 with “Fantastic Four” 1994 (18). This film series is still bringing to the screen impossible dreams and super-powered characters nowadays.
In the 2000s dedicated software samplers boasted with new features on samplers like battery and drums improved notably. Development of studio recording kept improving (pitch correction, auto-tune features) within this decade. Improvements on larger storage room and better data compressing in sampling devices gave electronic music the opportunity to gain quality and save budget on film music’s projects. The spread of Internet-mediated music sharing and digital downloads transformed the music industry. This availability inspired a new generation of musicians, who would go on to make their own marks. The way music was distributed and consumed was the result of the then emerging fourth technological revolution in which we are. The introductions of iPod and other mp3 players, digital stores and streaming services had a huge impact on music distribution. Music television shifted to focus on reality shows, shaping music trends and opportunities to artists. Internet music platforms boosted popularity thanks to the easiness in reaching artists. Indi bands pushed boundaries on this genre with inventive sounds. Hip hop, R&B, pop, emo-pop and Indi genres offered an emotional diversity in their music easing introspective and more eclectic moods for listeners. Synthpop, electropop, electrohouse, trance, chillout, indietronica, J-pop, K-pop, genres became popular and left an impression on score suites (“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” 2000 (20), “No Man´s Land” 2001 (20), “The Devils Backbone” 2001 (20), “Gladiator” 2001 (20), “Der Tunnel” 2001, “City of God” 2002 (20), “Goodbye Lennin” 2003 (20), “Lord of the Rings” 2001-2003 (20), “The Barbarian Invasions 2003”, “Shaun of the dead” 2004 (20), ”The Sea Inside” 2004 (20), “The Pianist” 2004 (20), “Wolf Creek” 2005 (20), “Tsotsi” 2005 (20), “Letters from Iwo Jima” 2006 (20), “Letters of Others” 2006, “Persepolis” 2007 (20), ” The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas”2008 (20), “Slumdog Millionaire” 2008 (20), “Departures” 2008 (20), “Red Cliff” 2008 (20), “The Secret in Their Eyes” 2009 (20), “Coraline” 2009 (20), “Inglorious Bastards” 2009 (20)) . Nu-metal bands, House DJs, snap music and rap lived a global influence in experimenting and merging styles thanks to connectivity, creating many new musical movements that lasted beyond this decade (19).
In the decade of the 2010s hybrid scoring technique increases notably in sound score production, combining real musicians, synthesised sound effects (“Inception” 2010 (21), “Robin Hood” 2010 (21), “Automata” 2014 (21), “Train to Busan” 2016 (21) ). We find synth and distorted dark electric guitars to recreate a crime western in “The Duel” 2016 (21) and synth dark chords to introduce us into a battle war atmosphere in “Dunkirk” 2017 (21). Percussion samples and more needle drops in the shape of soul songs from the past are brought to the screen in film series and score compositions such as “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” 2011 or “The Dark Knight Rises” 2012 (21). More emo-classic tones with synth and new ambient effects can be listened in score themes and soundtracks like “A separation” 2011 (21), “Ernest & Celestine” 2012 (21), “Parasite” 2019 (21), “Song of the Sea” 2014 (21), “The Handmaiden” 2016 (21), “A Fantastic Woman” 2017, “Den 12 Mann (The 12th Man)” 2017, “Roma” 2018 (21), “White Snake: The Origin” 2019 (21) or “Pain and Glory” 2019 (21). The decade of the 2010s is characterised by globalization, social sharing and setting music as a worldwide language since a person from one country could follow in streaming a broadcast on the other side of the world and share it. Music platforms multiplied and improved notably and the consumption of music varied in between paying per song on a digital music marketplace or subscribing on a platform. Implications for music industry were huge since listeners could access many new and varied types of music than ever; and this actual speed music propagation benefited the filming industry too in a way. Rhythm and Blues, Hip Hop, Pop and Latin Music and K-pop have globalised and reached every corner of the world in this decade. The music-making process has amplified the power to reach anyone thanks to cheap recording devices and online compositional tools allowing emerging groups and artists to start faster and cheaper in the music industry and serving as pipeline for songwriters, singers and other artists to create collaborations in new ways and with a blending of genres never seen before. Artificial Intelligence improves listeners’ experience in music platforms offering a more personalized experience (recommended songs, offering shared playlists and finding new international artists). In the 2010s there is a rise of boy and girl bands that continues in the next decade.
2020s. Today the way to compose has evolved and experimenting with new sounds, manipulating recorded sounds, the employ of unconventional instruments to create unique scores in electronic compositions (“The Portable Door” 2023(22), “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” 2022 (22), “There is something in the Barn” 2023 (22)) that enrich the film´s emotional depth (electronic music and avant-garde music transports us to a crude and terrifying war world war I on “All quiet on the western front” 2022 (22), and a nostalgic trip on “Another Round” 2020 (22)). The pandemic in 2020 boosted a new de-centralized and virtualized way to collaborate and produce music since lockdowns occurred in almost every big city. Thanks to how evolved social media and music platforms were at the moment of lockdowns, we were able to re-connect and share easier. Trap music boosted, hip hop, have shifted towards plug, rap, reggaeton or jersey club styles did too. Synth-pop merged with pop-rock, emo-pop and cyberpunk ((“Land of Bad” 2024(22), “Reminiscence” 2021 (22), “The Mitchels vs. The Machines 2021” (22), videogame inspired music (“Guns Akimbo” 2020 (22), “Mutant Ghost War Girl”, 2022 (22)), gothic folk-pop, indie pop, hyper pop, nu-disco, pop-punk, emo-pop, house, indie rock, drill music and afro beats elevated the number of listeners considerably on mainstream media music affecting film music as well. Nostalgic feeling that persists after the pandemic has raised the demand of old songs, and so are acoustic, electric guitars, drum kits and hybrid electronic keyboards and orchestra sound (“Napoleon” 2023 (22), “Journey to Bethlehem” 2023 (22)). Electronic music and film soundtracks have experienced a return into the 60s and classics chords (“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” 2021 (22), ”Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” 2023, (22)), the 70s, 80s and 90s and jazz music (“Drive my Car” 2021 (22)) due to a reconnection with our roots after Covid-19 but, this time, with a merge of styles (“Guardians of the Galaxy” 2023 (22) ,“The Zone of interest”, 2023 (22) , “Nomadland” 2020 (22) , “Poker Face” 2022 (22)) . In the 2020s for both, listeners and creators, the music industry keeps growing and recognizing talent regardless status, gender, sexuality, race or ethnic region and this reflex can be noticed on every score suite.
Film music acts as an emotional catalyst, making us feeling joy, fear, sorrow, tension while following the narrative shown on the story we´re watching. The narrative language in which film music becomes, makes our brains take an emotional journey, evoking memories, good and bad things we have gone through in our lives so that we don´t forget what the point still is, because there is always a point, and making us connect with our own feelings. Film Music helps us to live in a healthier way and escape of everyday tensions and monotony at the reach of our remote control.
The 4th technological revolution enhanced by technological advances and connectivity have modified the way we produce and consume forever. Filtering and selecting contents have become essential in this decade. Films and Music are our legacy to future generations and a tribute to past ones that left effort, energy, investment and tons of work in film and music making, so that we can have a film or a serial on our favourite digital platform nowadays.
Films and music are about sharing our culture, lifestyles and way of life in a more than a globalized and over-connected world, learn off what we see it´s still a personal choice. And this should serve us to improve our lives instead of dividing us. Take advantage of what we have, and take care of one another instead of destroying what we have will be always a personal choice. Huge teams of people work on filming and music industry productions because we all need to have dreams (and nightmares too...) and, that´s what life is about, balancing constantly, otherwise your road could be much more “interesting” than you expected.
Thanks for smiling. Enjoy The Road!
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A Trip to Music in Films (2/4)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/me-the-self-and-i/202106/why-we-watch-movies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Theatre_of_Epidaurus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_theatre
https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/benefits-of-watching-movies/10830400
https://thebioscope.net/ https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0223.xml | https://filmsbytheyear.com/first-talkies-part-1-1900-le-phono-cinema-theatre/
Edward J. Muybridge´s Galloping Horse 1878, Edward James Muggeridgehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGKILJ1PGHM, Roundhay Garden Scene 1888, Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAiYFEHI9o8
Workers Leaving the Lumiére Factory in Lyon 1895, Louis Lumiére, https://youtu.be/yvC_xrDqB3s?si=biISXWjjMPz33wpm | The Astonomers Dream 1898, Georges Mélies, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8SMIiQZUcs , L´homme á la tête en Caoutchouch 1901, Georges Mélies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgpWtyT1nxM, Le Vogage dans la Lune 1902, Georges Méliés, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNAHcMMOHE8, Alice in wonderland 1903, Lewis Carroll, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeIXfdogJbA, The Great Train Robbery 1903, Edwin S. Porter, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11PBAUkrg54
A story of Kelly Gang Crime Drama 1906, Elizabeth Tait, John Tait & Norman Campbell, https://youtu.be/1A6niZmzvoc?si=SfWtMprbqsVX_Znc| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000574/ | https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/when-were-movies-invented/#:~:text=The%20movies%20we%20know%20today&text=The%20first%20motion%20picture%20is,what%20we%20consider%20movies%20today
A Film Johnie 1914, Charles Chaplin, https://youtu.be/AI-IaVDLKeE?si=51OsOqXifxUMqHCP | The Adventurer 1917, Charles Chaplin, https://youtu.be/tgV3ucBlLfg?feature=shared
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920, Giuseppe Becce, https://youtu.be/Gpn49rUuOGU | Nosferatu 1922, Hans Erdmann, https://youtu.be/FC6jFoYm3xs | Battleship Potemkim 1925, Edmund Meisel, https://youtu.be/a_bkBbrdyyw | The adventures of Prince Achmed 1926, Wolfgang Zeller, https://youtu.be/92KFRJLhi_E | Metropolis 1927, Gottfried Huppertz, https://youtu.be/W_4no842TX8 | The Jazz Singer 1927, Louis Silvers https://youtu.be/OHi4wVQYJgc
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/brief-history-of-sound-in-film/ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_film | http://www.aaamusic.co.uk/2020/04/17/track-the-evolution-a-short-history-of-film-music/
https://www.filmmakersacademy.com/blog-introduction-to-sound-and-music-in-film/ A Birth of a Nation, 1915 , Joseph Carl Breil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzBNRecsp4E | Casablanca 1942 (“As Time Goes By”), Herman Hupfeld, https://youtu.be/Y44eq2ziu0w | King Kong´s soundtrack score 1933, Max Steiner, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTdOjpGhvPs | Winchester ’73 1950, Joseph Gershenson, https://archive.org/details/winchester-73-1950 | Fantasia 1940, Stephen Csillag, https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8pomlu | The Third Man, Anton Karas, https://archive.org/details/the-third-man-1949-restored-720p-hd | Duel in The Sun 1947, Dimitri Tiomkin, https://youtu.be/8IauiO__i3o | The Searchers 1956, Max Steiner, https://youtu.be/fUFaL7pZctA?si=E02lmbaKB54tOqP8 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957, https://youtu.be/ZqyiRwlLa80 | 3:10 to Yuma, https://youtu.be/nkXDLNRVMxY?si=zr93KbfXhiVtMxVn | River of no return 1954, Cyril J. Mockridge, https://archive.org/details/River-of-No-Return-1954 | A streetcar named Desire 1951,Alex North, https://youtu.be/Oyuf0C_RX1k?si=7L5x2ZACzIvfku0h | La Strada 1954, Nino Rota,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcecJ0WjI38| The King and I 1956, Richard Rodgers, https://youtu.be/CwNnJooRtNc | The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957, Malcolm Arnold, https://youtu.be/8TSVRjje4F4?si=66ePG52O0Gp_B0uv
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Why do melodies bring us out our feelings?
Songs are perceived emotionally by our senses through melody and harmony. Melody is the part of a song that gets wrapped in your brain after listening to it. Rhythm is what sets the tone of a melody. Melody consists of a pitch or the sequence of sounds arranged as a series of notes and duration of each one of the notes on such sequence of notes (1). Harmony progression is how notes are combined simultaneously in a melody. Minor chords are used to provide low emotions and major chords usually convey happiness and optimism. Dissonant harmonies introduce tension and consonant harmonies stability and resolution. These progressions are modulated by music dynamics such as crescendos (growing intensity) and decrescendos (decreasing intensity) on each piece, emphasizing key moments.
The first known melody is dated on 1400 B.C and was discovered on a clay tablet in Syria (1). It is called “Hurrian Hymn No.6” (2). In prehistory, humans mimicked sunrises and sunsets as they perceived them in nature, connecting with their inner being and nature. Melodies are a result of mirroring and mimicking our environment and ambient. This is also known as emotional resonance (3). Since our brains recognize better a repeated pattern than a new one, earworms become a successful element inside a melody. Notes combination, predictability and repetition on melodies composition makes our brain recognise as familiar (9) due to its structure and harmony.
Music is a universal language, like Mathematics. Rhythm and the way notes are combined is what produce a melody of one type or another. Melodies, spoken language and time perception of sound, are processed differently on each hemisphere, speaking processing happens in the left and melodic processing on the right auditory cortex (4). We have in common the shape and composition as human beings (senses to perceive the ambient when it comes to feel music and listen to another person speaking for instance), therefore, we share the same scale of feelings (perception varies on each one of us since our background and evolution are different). A Melody can shake and make shiver any human across the globe, jumping over any barrier we attempt to put in between us.
Rhythms have to do with timing, and how a same structure of chords and notes can seem so different, even if we compare the “ingredients” of two melodies and as a result we see they seem to be equal at first sight but they don´t sound the same when heard because “the way they are mixed down” is different. Rhythm is the heartbeat of a melody, and it synchronizes with our heartbeats when we expose ourselves to a song. When we listen to a song we end up moving our body at that same beat. Synchronizing with rhythm and drumming has been used as an evolutive resource, to keep the social group together, strengthen bonds and improve chances of survival (4) since prehistory.
Music makes us feel good, can surprise us, helps us to appraise things and music itself, it is action intended. It helps us being synchronized with our feelings, evokes memories and realizes past emotions, connects us and promotes the use of our imagination. Fast beats and bright tones can make us motivate ourselves inducing more positive emotions and slow beats have the opposite effect on us. Rhythmic patterns evoke emotional responses on our brain and body. Tensions and releases created within rhythm disrupt the pattern of a melody, solving it after a number of compasses releasing the tension, providing a sense of pleasure in the brain when heard. We synchronize with notes, chords and beats; hence we are always exposed to connect with what we are listening to. We connect with melodies due to emotional resonance, when listening to a song, we release mirror neurons and emotional contagion takes place, making us to live that story while the song is playing as if it was our own story. Lyrics act as a storyteller, sharing a story about Love and Loss, a Bad Day, Happiness and Joy, Friendship, Personal Liberation, Life, the Magic of Minor or a World of Fantasy (5). Singing along to the melody you are listening to, makes us feeling like being part of that story for a while, activating our sense of happiness and feeling of being understood, making us feel relieved.
Lyrics also encourage our intellect with subliminal messages we encounter when we listen carefully to a composition. Spoken language elevates music higher bringing creativity to a half-hidden level that our brains identify as puzzles, and it does it expressing and meaning more than what we literally hear in a verse, a chorus, or a bridge within the song we are listening to. Songs send hidden messages we encounter when we mirror with what it´s telling us, being able to understand through our own experiences and resonating with those. Unexpected changes in melodies such as chord progression or key change brings us a feeling of surprise that intensifies our emotional response as listeners rewarding us with pleasure afterwards. This is why melodies are so engaging, they speak right to our heart and our brain through a language we can understand.
Melodies help us enhancing our memory unlocking “lost” memories of a past and good moment for instance, letting us have a better perception of what happened if that memory wasn´t a good experience and easing our perception of that moment. Music helps to have more quality of life and it helps to have a “better organized closet” up there our shoulders. The feeling of pleasure that our body experiment when listening to a calming and gentle melodies, triggers the production of “happy hormones” (6). Melodies can act as painkillers for chronic pain patients as well, easing the stress they experiment while suffering pain giving the brain and body a more than needed break, helping it to self-regulate better for a while and improving health in the middle and long term. The same logic works for healthcare providers, music can also relieve stress and making their daily work a bit better.
We can use music and melodies to perform a better activity (7). A runner may listen to more boosting melodies than dancers or chronic-pain patients, because the response of the endocrine system differs while listening to those different melodies, and so is our physical activity. Other more “unstructured, floaty and dreamy” melodies can be used to empower and boost creativity on artists or people who develop creative work. There are different types of components linked to positive emotions (8). Melodies can lift up your mood with brighter timbre keys or calm you down with more relaxed tunes, it brings us companion when feeling lonely with minor tones and cheering us up when we are feeling down with major tones.
This is how melodies connect with us and makes us connect among us. Music is live human history. A history of our experiences, the way we deal with them and how we progress in solving them. The common threads we use to share this information among us are melodies and songs. It is our choice with which type of thread we would like to be connected.
Thanks for smiling. Enjoy the sunset!
References:
(1) How Melody and Harmony evokes emotion, https://medium.com/@athilk25/the-power-of-melody-and-harmony-how-music-evokes-emotion-82693f4b7bf3 | https://www.masterclass.com/articles/music-101-what-is-melody#7zAvYMrQjd5ql5XMcURZu6
(2) The Oldest Known Melody, https://youtu.be/QpxN2VXPMLc
(3) The Psychology of music: how melodies, rhythms and lyrics impact our emotions, https://medium.com/@pinnacleinsights369/the-psychology-of-music-how-melodies-rhythms-and-lyrics-impact-our-emotions-a4f3c5877d21 | https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130418-why-does-music-make-us-feel-good
(4) Cognitive Processing in Music and Language, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0073372 | https://neuro-class.com/la-musica-en-el-cerebro-cuando-el-cerebro-escucha/ | https://hipertextual.com/2020/02/asi-distingue-cerebro-musica-y-habla
(5) Song Writing Prompts, https://robinpiree.com/blog/songwriting-prompts | https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/201906/6-ways-music-affects-your-emotions
(6) Happy hormones, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/happy-hormones-dopamine-serotnin-endorphins-natural
(7) How Music affects us emotionally, https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/science-of-choice/202309/how-music-affects-us-emotionally
(8) Happy songs, https://theconversation.com/happy-songs-these-are-the-musical-elements-that-make-us-feel-good-201342
(9) How does music help us feel, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-musical-self/202103/how-does-music-help-us-feel
(10)The 8 components of musical emotion, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/science-choice/202106/the-8-components-musical-emotion
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Why and when do we sing?
Voice is our instrument to communicate with the others and it can be trained for whatever we need. Anyone can sing. Singing means an amusing way to say how you are feeling (1). Different types of singing come out of of manipulating the voice in a different way. How you express it doesn´t matter, there are artists who sing through almost speaking the melody such singer-songwriters or either yelling it like in deep metal or underground music, or maybe using your soft palate and your head voice as a resonance box like opera singers, those are different ways of expression through singing.
Voice is a fingerprint of us, our id card when it comes to communicating with others, it is our personality reflex and it is unique. Have you ever drawn your attention to your own voice when you are speaking to yourself? Is it not different than when we are chatting with other people? There is a change in our voice when we are alone or with trusted people than when we are in community. The level of communication changes, so does our voice. If you need to express an idea and you are trying to reach the majority of your audience, you need to be clear in your words and ways to express yourself. Let´s include a melody in this equation and as a result you get a piece of music, let´s call it song. In songs, we will find symbolism like in poetry, and that is the composer´s and singer´s identity. It is the reflex of that identity what makes us sing that certain song and not any other.
Since we get together to share and celebrate or to moan and whine sometimes too, we have developed a “common mindfulness” with our voices greater that ourselves when we sing altogether. It looks like we have a real need to be a part of that “consciousness flow” we develop at the moment we gather to share whatsoever. Thanks to this need, we are aware of synergies nowadays. That “thing” that happens when the result of our work is much more elevated and complete than we would have reached if that task would have been made separately. Now take this concept to a stage, with musicians, singers and a choir on it, playing music. No matter if you are performing or attending as a listener, synergies will happen in any direction since we are gathering.
Since the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, the sense of community gets strengthened by melodies when attending a concert or any other music event. This same logic works with choirs (2). The Greeks created the first known choral competition in the 5th century BC (3). The choral tradition was created in Europe, Ethiopia and Egypt starting off in the fourth century AC (4), to remember important messages and provide togetherness in what was going on at that present time. Singing brings us to the present moment, it can be seen as another way of mindfulness, though much more powerful. When voices are raised together at the very same time, they turn into a giant one soul. Mistakes or mistuning can´t narrowly be noticed when we sing together at the same time. Choirs can be addictive because they complement each voice among them, and they flow with the melody, expressing themselves, telling us something, and reminding us we can join. There are choirs in every song, in every melody, some are instrumental and we end up humming them, others have letters we can paraphrase. They work anyway, since there is no judgement, just joy. Haven´t you noticed how nice to see somebody on the street humming a song while walking or singing inside a car? Multiply that by 30 people doing that same thing at the same moment.
But why do we sing and when? Singing, like practicing sports or any other physical activity, triggers the production of endorphins, oxytocin, serotonin and dopamine hormones (5, 9), regulating and reinforcing the feeling of rewards and pleasure. It feels good when practicing. It let us communicate and be. Since it feels good and we use music and singing to gather and express ourselves, then, it´s when singing becomes a social necessity. We have been using music and singing in a wide variety of biological and social situations (6). We have sung on hunting drives, to bond and calm our babies, to celebrate rites, to attract or flirt on a potential mate (7) or to let out something that we cannot express with words because it is too intense to express otherwise. Hence, singing is beneficial to anyone, not just professional singers. Singing, humming or “nananaing” improves human´s quality of life by lowering down anxiety and regulating emotions chemically while expressing ourselves.
We can find many melodies in nature, tree leaves sounding while wind blows swaying them, chirping birds in spring or autumn, or crickets and croaking frogs singing together on a pond at night, for instance. We are also in this Planet and we have our own way to sing too. We have created singing, choruses and music like insects and animal sounds to communicate. Pre-historic humans probably started to imitate nature sounds. Many experts think that voice is the original instrument, and singing the original way to communicate. Some of the first songs we know are written in early musical notation and dated from nearly 6.000 years in Mesopotamia and Ancient Greek cultures. Some other early ceremonial and clan songs have been found in Australia. They are dated over 10.000 years ago and they were used to remember directions or stories (4).
Singing brings and bonds us together in a kind and amusing way. It reminds us that we do better together. If you want to improve your mental and physical well-being (10), live happier and longer (8) singing is one of the healthiest ways to achieve it.
Thanks for smiling. Enjoy the soirée.
References:
(1) Why do we sing? | What is Music , www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOG1iH6UTPI
(2) Twelve Reasons for Singing, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-edge-peak-performance-psychology/201412/twelve-reasons-singing
(3) The history of choral music: tracing the evolution of this ancient art form, https://medium.com/@LizaJones459/the-history-of-choral-music-tracing-the-evolution-of-this-ancient-art-form-35dc8724e333
(4) Ask Russel – Why do we sing? https://www.abc.net.au/listen/classic/read-and-watch/music-reads/ask-russell-why-do-we-sing-/101356844
(5) Timeline – Why do we sing? https://www.vermontpublic.org/programs/2019-12-02/timeline-why-we-sing
(6) Why do people sing? https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/49098/why-do-people-sing | Why singing is goodyou’re your body and mind?. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2VZPZmq2pRSMT2YHWbQdW7/why-singing-is-good-for-your-body-and-mind
(7) Why do we sing? https://www.londonsinginginstitute.co.uk/why-do-we-sing/
(8) 5 Ways singing helps humanity, https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/5-ways-singing-helps-humanity
(9) Happy hormones, dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/happy-hormones-dopamine-serotnin-endorphins-natural | A Review of the Physiological Effects and Mechanisms of Singing, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28826978/
(10) Flow state, exercise and healthy singing, https://theconversation.com/flow-state-exercise-and-healthy-ageing-5-unexpected-benefits-of-singing-180415
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How does Music show us who we are?
Music provides us a source of inspiration and an open space for creativity and thought-sharing in society. Since climate conditions and geographical position in this Planet Earth vary, it is logical to think that cultural background, food, and personality traits will do so. So does music. Every culture has unique taste for music related to its heritage. A common characteristic of music to every culture is, that we use it to regulate emotions no matter how extravert, agreeable or stable we are(1).
Customs and the way people develop and their lives change throughout time and across the planet. People choose sounds that match their personality. For instance, an extrovert person may choose pop or rock while a more introvert person may choose indie, new age or classical music. Punk music was born as a way to show discontent with societal norms. Hip-hop music treats directly inequality, racism and city issues. Not everyone vibrates with the same chords, since every individual has a different character. This is why each style has a group of humans that identifies with different melodies. Since every individual evolves, any group this individual belongs also improves, and so does their music. Every change that we live as a society it´s reflected on our music almost automatically, since music it´s a way of expression that can propagate faster and deeper than other arts. In our social history, the concept of freedom of expression has been in constant evolution, and music it’s a direct reflex of this.
Music events and concerts have the power to connect human beings while sharing an emotional journey or a moment of celebration, strengthening human bonds through their melodies. Singing and sharing moments improves everyone´s chemistry and bridges brotherhood among us, making us feel rewarded and more aware of the others. That´s the superpower of music and that is how music can gives its (or at least one) definition of group. Music helps us out on reinforcing our identity and how we want to be perceived(2). Music concerts, for instance brings us the opportunity to interact with each other, setting aside any differences and enjoying one same thing, feeling the uplifting melodies and anthemic choruses that makes us feel freedom of expression and movement. Music connect our emotions. It is all worth it. Your opinion and the type of music you hear is as valid as another person´s with a different opinion. Creativity (and Music) does not understand life on a better-worse scale, as long as it makes you feel good, it´s ok. This won´t break the sense of belonging to our group at all. Respecting differences unites us.
Trespassing frontiers, that is what music does. Even if you are stuck in a conflict, it still trespass boundaries and reminds you who you are in a joyful and sweet way, no matter what your social class, health state or economic stage is. It still reminds us that we are Human Beings, and that, well, it is not so bad to share a moment, laugh together or even embrace if our interests are not so much tuned up. Music is like a warm blanket wrapping us when far from home, and we are feeling homesick. It has the power to help us recall emotions, thoughts and shared moments with others that can enhance our emotional state in a “valley moment” of our lives. Thus, music is there to reminds us once again, “I can overcome this”, “this is who I am”, “I can help you feel relief(3)”, or “hey, I´m here to help you go after your dreams”. Just pick up your song for each moment!
The connection between music and social intelligence is tight. Healthy and regular social relationships(4) are crucial for a nicer and better life, especially if music is involved. These actions will bear further on, acting like a cascade of good social habits and a better lifestyle for all of us. There are thousands of opportunities to share a moment, if you missed it today, remember, the sun will go up again tomorrow and will bring many opportunities within.
Thanks for smiling. Enjoy the sunrise!
References:
(1) “Just the way you are”: Music Listening and Personality. https://research.atspotify.com/2020/12/just-the-way-you-are-music-listening-and-personality/
(2) The Psychology of Taste: The Intertwining of Music and Identity. Does your music preference reveal insights regarding your character? https://thesciencesurvey.com/arts-entertainment/2021/06/14/the-psychology-of-taste-the-intertwining-of-music-and-identity/
(3) How Music Heals and Inspires Us in Challenging Times. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stonewall-strong/202107/how-music-heals-and-inspires-us-in-challenging-times
(4) Daniel Goleman “Social Intelligence” https://www.danielgoleman.info/books/
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How Music can Change our Mood?
A walk can be a simple and unimaginative action or an amusement and a door to creativity. We propose and experiment: try to stroll an everyday way in silence, and at the following day do the exact same way while listening to your favourite music. You may notice after the second walk, an improvement in your sense of humour, or that your mood it´s being boosted, and the way you look at the world as your perception have changed.
Music can cheer us up in a healthy way, it soothes and it opens our creativity making us feel good. Our tasks seem less tough after listening to a couple of songs. Our motivation is high, thanks to those sticky beats we´ve just heard. That is why our smile draws in our face when listening to music, before we can even notice we are smiling.
Melodies go straight to almost every part of our brain, activating, soothing and reconnecting. Alzheimer´s and other types of dementia diseased people can reconnect within their brain thanks to listening to familiar tunes, and even recognize, for a moment, who is visiting them at that precise moment; premature infants can be helped to develop their cognitive system while they reach maturity as babies while listening to certain type of melodies. Adolescents at school can ease their communicative skills while relaxing in the playground if music is being played on school sound systems. Kids can improve their academic performance thanks to music as well. A company staff can feel less stress if well selected background music is playing while developing their routinely tasks.
Even a date can be more honest and less time-spoiling if nice and soothing music is playing in background. Think of it, we have created this art to amuse and ease our souls, why don´t use it to improve our well-being every day?
The more we listen to nice music of our taste, the healthier emotions we will have (and yes...it is ok to sing in the shower, we´re humans…). Since perception eases and clarifies after listening to our music, it is a really good habit that can extend our quality of life, our social life and our inner dialogue as well.
It is a fact that music melts tension. Music can be used in a moment of complete miscommunication to become closer to that person you are arguing with. Whenever we play that person´s favourite song to break that freezing silence, we will barely need words to break that uncomfortable peak of tension and open a new opportunity to reconnect with whom you lost that nice thread we call friendship.
So, if you want to avoid bad words, silly arguments, stupid and not well-founded thoughts about any issue that you may have at the present time, we beg you to stop, listen to your favourite music for, around 10 minutes, and then keep going, and you will surely discover a new way to approach that matter afterwards.
Music is there to help since it is a part of our humankind. Enjoy the walk!
Thank you for smiling.
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The Music Box
The Music Box is made to share and remind us how beneficial music or how harmful can be to our beings. We have no intention to discover anything new since we are not professional researchers, but only share and point out what are the things we can do to improve our everyday lives while listening to music.
Sometimes we expose to situations, people and places that are not good for us, sometimes we do. Being aware of how good or how bad can this affect us, is a key to feel and live better. We cannot choose what others do, but we do have the choice to decide what to listen or not, we always do. If you take a break when stuck in a problem, and listen to a song or piece of your taste, after listening to it, your perception is notably cleared up and things don´t seem so bad, do they?
Music is inherent to us, it is a part our human evolution and our cultures. It evolves as we do, like in every other Art. Music can be seen as a footprint of a moment in a lifetime. Memory is selective, and moments in time can be recalled only by listening a beat or two of your favourite song, just the beginning of a song is needed to bring a nice moment to your mind. Music always heal. Music helps to think and develop new ways to perform, it helps us to improve constantly. This is the magic of Music.
We, as humans, produce music to celebrate or to moan, to accompany somebody, or to say goodbye. Music is one of the most altruistic Arts we have created as humans, since it connects in a deep way our souls and makes us forget our problems for a while. Music and creativity will hold hands forever, as well as emotions and tunes.
Welcome to the Music Box
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